I was playing with libaa, and managed to toy with a few hooks, then found that Apple already did the same, as did someone else, only a bit less advanced than my little toy, and neither used libaa. ;)
What was the project? Playing a movie in pure 7 bit ASCII! It’s running in a GLTerm (Don’t even think of trying this with Terminal.App!)
Downsized ‘Computer Boy’. 222×65 character resolution. 16 colors! Oh, the beauty. ;)